Harvest of Screams

Video Walkthrough

Mission Walkthrough

Objectives

Main Objective: Collect Ursadon Matriarch Essence

Main Objective: Recover the Lost Brood

This snowy missions starts out with your small group looking to acquire the essence of the native Ursadon. This part of the mission is completely linear and doesn't leave room for getting side tracked. Simply march forward killing any enemies you come across until you reach the Matriarch. Kill her and pick up the essence, then walk on for a few moments to find a frozen base and trigger an event.

Objectives

Main Objective: Destroy Psi-link Spires (0/3)

Bonus Objective: Kill the Ursadon Matriarchs (0/2)

As with any mission, begin this part by building up your worker units so you are making the most money. Your goal should be to amass an army of Roaches and Zerglings. Roaches are a powerful unit, capable of decimating land targets. You should aim to have about 10-15 of them with a healthy compliment of Zerglings to back them up. After getting this small army together, venture North to the first Psi-Link and take out the Protoss located there, then destroy the link.

After destroying the first one, the last two will appear. Before venturing out to destroy them, take this time to build up a larger force and aim to do the optional objectives. The Ursadon packs are typically located behind Protoss units, so you will need your forces to punch through to them. Doing this bonus objective will help you out, as each essence improves The Swarm, helping them cope with the Flash Freeze. Remember that you can simply wait until a freeze occurs before attacking the Protoss. This will lock them in place and make it incredibly easy for you to blow through them.

Once the bonus objective is taken care of, regroup and prepare to hit the Psi-Link buildings. To make this easy on yourself, build up a heavy supply of Roaches. An army of 30+ Roaches will be able to tear through the Protoss even if they are not frozen. Be careful around the Colossus though. They have a powerful AoE attack that can slice through even the tough Roaches. This is where you should use Kerrigan, slamming them with a Kinetic Blast to rip through a huge chunk of their shields and health, allowing your Roaches to kill them quicker.

Achievements

Tips - This one is self explanatory.

Tips - In order to grab this achievement, build up a sizable army of Roaches with a few Zerglings mixed in. When a flash freeze occurs, run in and pick off any units and then destroy all the Protoss Pylons. After that, retreat until the flash freeze disappears. Once everything is thawed, head back in and destroy the buildings. Taking out the pylons makes this much easier as it powers down all the Protoss buildings.

Tips - This achievement is best completed through the Master Archives. This will allow you to use your upgraded units while replaying the mission. With that in mind, simply build a bunch of Zerglings. Raptorlings are best here but any Zergling unit will suffice. Each time there is a flash freeze send your Zerglings directly to the Psi-Link and destroy it. Do this once for each flash freeze and you should complete the mission around the 10 minute mark.

Tips - This achievement is basically identical to Storm Chaser. Each time there is a flash freeze send a group of Zerglings to focus down the Psi-Link then get out. However this time, during each flash freeze, also have Kerrigan head to the bonus objective. With good use of her Kinetic Blast she will be able to solo it. Repeat this during the next flash freeze to grab the second bonus objective and Psi-Link. The third flash freeze will happen around the 8 minute mark, giving your Zerglings ample time to kill the final Psi-Link.